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Peru police to press charges against alleged Hezbollah detainee

November 10, 2014

Peruvian police said on Monday they will press charges against a foreign man arrested in Lima last month, after finding him with traces of explosives and getting his confession to being a member of the Shi’ite Islamist movement Hezbollah. Authorities have not said what they are charging the man with nor why they initially investigated him. Police found traces of explosives on the man’s hands and in the house where he was staying upon his arrest on October 28, said Peru’s police director Jorge Flores. “He has accepted being a member of Hezbollah,” Flores told reporters about his confession while in police custody. “The investigation has concluded and corresponding paperwork will be processed. Today he is going to be made available to the attorney’s general office as a detainee.”